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Nykolas Z Updates Global Alternative DNS Speed Test to Include Cloudflare (1.1.1.1)
A while back, Medium blogger 'Nykolas Z' posted results from a globally distributed DNS resolver test to find the speediest provider (NOTE: speed is not the only consideration when choosing an alternative DNS provider). While the test…
More Options For Querying DNS From R with 1.1.1.1
You have to have been living under a rock to not know about Cloudflare's new 1.1.1.1 DNS offering. I won't go into "privacy", "security" or "speed" concepts in this post since that's a pretty huge topic to distill for folks given the, now,…
Compute/Visualize Drive Space Consumption of Your Installed R Packages
The fs package makes it super quick and easy to find out just how much "package hoarding" you've been…
R⁶ — Capturing [YouTube] Captions
@yoniceedee suggested I look at the Cambridge Analytics "whistleblower" testimony…
On MIMEs, software versions and web site promiscuity (a.k.a. three new packages to round out the week)
A quick Friday post to let folks know about three in-development R packages that you're encouraged to poke the tyres o[fn] and also jump in and file issues or PRs…
Steel-ing a Makeover from Tariffic Post
(FWIW I think I even caused myself pain due to the title of this blog…
Handling Semantic Version Strings Like a Boss with the semver Package
I work with internet-scale data and do my fair share of macro-analyses on vulnerabilities. I use the R semver package for most of my work and wanted to blather on a bit about it since it's super-helpful for this work and doesn't get the…
Comparing 2017 Maine Lobster Landings To Historical Landings
Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine…
Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package
The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be…
Quick and Clean DMARC Record Processing with "Inline" Rcpp
Much of what I need to do for work-work involves using tools that are (for the moment) not in R. Today, I needed to test the validity of (and other processing on) DMARC records and I'm loathe to either reinvent the wheel or reticulate bits…